Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 836

46.4.3 Login Successful but GNOME Desktop
If this is true for a particular user, it is likely that the user's GNOME configuration files
have become corrupted. Some symptoms might include the keyboard failing to work,
the screen geometry becoming distorted, or even the screen coming up as a bare gray
field. The important distinction is that if another user logs in, the machine works nor-
mally. If this is the case, it is likely that the problem can be fixed relatively quickly by
simply moving the user's GNOME configuration directory to a new location, which
causes GNOME to initialize a new one. Although the user is forced to reconfigure
GNOME, no data is lost.
1 Switch to a text console by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 .
2 Log in with your user name.
3 Move the user's GNOME configuration directories to a temporary location:
4 Log out.
5 Log in again, but do not run any applications.
6 Recover your individual application configuration data (including the Evolution
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mv .gconf .gconf-ORIG-RECOVER
mv .gnome2 .gnome2-ORIG-RECOVER
e-mail client data) by copying the ~/.gconf-ORIG-RECOVER/apps/ direc-
tory back into the new ~/.gconf directory as follows:
cp -a .gconf-ORIG-RECOVER/apps .gconf/
If this causes the login problems, attempt to recover only the critical application
data and reconfigure the remainder of the applications.